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Ensemble Pi: The Rest is Silence - March 1

Art

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James and I don’t only follow the purely visual arts. We attend a lot of theater, dance, and other performance. The next few weeks have a lot of things of interest. I’ll do several posts with recommendations, but this one is really important, and has a visual component too. Come see it with us on the 1st.

Ensemble Pi: The Rest is Silence

Saturday March 1st, 2008 at 8pm
Tickets at the door $15.

Venue:
The Great Hall at Cooper Union
7 East 7th Street at Third Avenue
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Program:

  • William Kentridge, Philip Miller: Two Shorts from Nine Projections featuring a live performance of original score for string quartet, trumpet and piano (2003)
  • Frederic Rzewski: Johnny Has Gone for a Soldier, for piano (2003) U.S. premiere
  • John Harbison: Abu Ghraib, for cello and piano (2006) N.Y. premiere
  • Kristin Norderval: Far From Home, for two voices and computer-generated sound (2007)
  • Dmitri Shostakovich: Piano trio No 2 in E minor, opus 67 (1944)

Guest Speaker: Naomi Wolf, author: The End of America

[image at top is Eyal Danieli, invitation for Ensemble Pi]

Brooklyn Museum - sharing images of the collection on Facebook

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[screengrab from my profile]

Via C-Monster, I learned that the Brooklyn Museum is sharing images of works in their collection via a Facebook application called Artshare. They set it up so that other institutions can join in too, and so far the list includes

  • Metropolitan Museum
  • Victoria & Albert
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • Picture Australia (which combines images from multiple collections)
  • Powerhouse Museum
  • Walters Art Museum

I particularly liked this, from the Museum’s blog announcement:

For the past week, we’ve been uploading (OK, well, Francesca Ford has been uploading…thanks, Francesca) our collection highlights into the application, but then we hit a snag when we got to our Contemporary collection. Since artists often retain the copyright on contemporary works, we stopped uploading and started making phone calls and sending emails to artists and galleries seeking permission to include their work in the first phase of this project. I have to extend my thanks to the artists (Jules de Balincourt, Barron Claiborne, Anthony Goicolea, Rashid Johnson, Lady Pink, Kambui Olujimi, Suzanne Opton, Andres Serrano, Swoon, Yoram Wolberger) who saw the worth in this kind of endeavor and said go for it. We will continue to contact more of the contemporary artists in our collection and add to these initial works, but we wanted to pause now and launch ArtShare for beta testing.

If you’re already on Facebook, go here to add it.

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Asking for riots in Denver?

Politics

The Democratic Party’s nominating convention in Denver could get interesting.

From the Boston Globe:

Hillary Clinton will take the Democratic nomination even if she does not win the popular vote, but persuades enough superdelegates to vote for her at the convention, her campaign advisers say.

The New York senator, who lost three primaries Tuesday night, now lags slightly behind her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, in the delegate count. She is even further behind in "pledged’’ delegates, those assigned by virtue of primaries and caucuses.

But Clinton will not concede the race to Obama if he wins a greater number of pledged delegates by the end of the primary season, and will count on the 796 elected officials and party bigwigs to put her over the top, if necessary, said Clinton’s communications director, Howard Wolfson.

“I want to be clear about the fact that neither campaign is in a position to win this nomination without the support of the votes of the superdelegates,’’ Wolfson told reporters in a conference call.

“We don’t make distinctions between delegates chosen by million of voters in a primary and those chosen between tens of thousands in caucuses,‘’ Wolfson said. "And we don’t make distinctions when it comes to elected officials’’ who vote as superdelegates at the convention.

Happy Valentine's Day

Image

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Justin Marshall, Baby, I wanna make-out, 2006, C-print

Justin Marshall had a solo show at Thomas Robertello Gallery in Chicago a few months ago. The image is from the gallery’s website.

Don’t take this as any indicator of our relationship, but James and I both referred to the holiday accidentally as Halloween on Wednesday.

John McCain: class act

Politics

Here is a nice quote from McCain in 1998 (via Attytood):

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

— Sen. John McCain, speaking to a Republican dinner, June 1998.

I fail to understand why some people think he is a “straight shooter” or someone more reasonable than the other crazy GOPers.